“The guy on the bottom who had a red sweater on was yelling to me: ‘help, help…’ [and] police say Zimmerman was bloody in his face and head, and the back of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.“

Some of Zimmerman’s own black family members and friends are speaking to the media as well.

“George Zimmerman is not a racist and cried for days after shooting dead a black Florida teenager, a black, longtime friend of Zimmerman said on Sunday in a sympathetic portrayal of a man maligned by critics as a trigger-happy bigot.“

and…

“As a black man, Oliver said minorities are often unfairly treated, but he believed Zimmerman was simply doing his job as a neighborhood watch volunteer by growing suspicious over an unfamiliar person walking through a neighborhood that had suffered some break-ins.“

“To earn his daily bread, Sharpton is well aware that he must continuously convince black Americans that they live in a hopelessly racist nation, not because it’s true, but because any genuine progress made by blacks themselves is inimical to his own interests. Forgotten in the controversy surrounding the Martin case are the dark levels Sharpton has stooped to in order to ensure the survival of his public persona, which are worth recalling here.“

“Ultimately, the forensics the public has not seen may be the ultimate arbiter of truth. If the ballistic trajectory is consistent with Zimmerman’s story, then Trayvon Martin was killed in a textbook case of self-defense. Florida’s ‘stand your ground’ law is utterly immaterial and Zimmerman committed no crime whatsoever.“

“The [Georgre] Zimmerman affidavit is so deficient in properly sourced factual information and full of unsubstantiated, unsourced conclusions, I am appalled that a State’s Attorney would even give it a second look.”

“… it appears… an innocent man has been railroaded by the press and the race baiters, aided by an unethical, irresponsible special prosecutor and a racialist President and Attorney General. I haven’t seen a shred of credible evidence to the contrary.“

”While the media has raised a hue and cry over grainy security cam footage, we have the sworn statement of the first officer to arrive at the scene… [who] state[d] that George Zimmerman had blood on his nose and back of his head, along with grass on his back.“

[So, George Zimmerman — on his neighborhood watch duty as a licensed gun owner — was…] “…malicious[ly] and repeated[ly] following or harrassing [Trayvon Martin] with credible threats with the intent to place [him] in reasonable fear of death of bodily injury?“]

[Really? The police reports are all available for the public to read now (see above). Where do any of them say, or even suggest, that?]

“[George Zimmerman] comes from a deeply Catholic background and was taught in his early years to do right by those less fortunate. He was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots… [he] also concerned himself with the safety of his neighbors after a series of break-ins committed by young African-American men.“

and…

“I’m black, OK? There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood. That’s why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin.“

ASND has often wondered why, despite all of the above evidence, any law enforcement authority in Florida persecuted George Zimmerman.

“Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman accused a Florida police department of corruption more than a year before he shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, saying at a public forum the agency covered up the beating of a black homeless man by the son of a white officer.“